Thread: Stupidest service procedure ever or what?

Originally Posted by Ancient Mariner

possible? The early TCs had a plug on the side too

If you are asking whether it would be possible to fit an elbow as shown in the photo, I don't think so, certainly not without removing the park brake assembly and I don't think the park brake could go back on with that in place.
I wonder how hard it would have been for the manufacturer to install another plug at the appropriate level to serve as a filler and level plug.

Seems to me there are two or three solutions here...depending on whether or not the filler plug is above or below the correct oil level.

If the filler plus is too low, then as has been mentioned, the rear of the vehicle needs to be jacked up a little to get it to the point where the level is correct.

Would be great if someone could experiment and work out just how much a 90 and 110 need to be jacked up (or rolled up on ramps) in order to get the filler plug in line with the correct oil level.

Alternatively if the filler plus is too high, then it's a matter of jacking up the front of the vehicle to get the correct level. Again, I'm sure I and other members of this forum would very much appreciate someone playing around with this to determine the correct height one needs to jack up the vehicle.

Again if the filler plus is too high, then it may be possible to make up a small "U" shaped dip-stick that can be poked into the hole to test the oil level.
Hopefully the parking brake assembly would not get in the way too much!

Of course the Getrag gearbox fitted to Pumas suffers from the same problem. The filler plus is not the level plug! That's even harder to get to, and the dip stick idea may not work in that rather cramped space.

Seems like the engineers at Land Rover (and Getrag) did a pretty poor job of designing these components.

Alan